Google Search is in decline for the users who know how the internet works. For my mother, the internet is still Google (and would remain like that no matter what). For me, for some friends of mine, and for many of my colleagues who know more or less how things work on the web, Google Search is just in free fall: we use it as last resort, but as other search engines (or other tools, like ChatGPT) improve over time, Google Search would just disappear from our bookmarks.

I know that many of you would say that it doesn't really matter what "hackers" think about Google Search, that all that matters is that the majority of the non-tech-savvy users still think Internet == Google. Well, let's talk again in 5 years.